Deep Thoughts: Kill the witches

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Kill the witches

You’ve got to love my son. His favorite part of Stephen King’s movie The Mist is when the nutball Christian lady gets shot for her hateful misdeeds. I told my son that monsters like her are a thing of the past. Apparently, I was not thinking about Christians in Africa at the time. They still try to kill witches.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him – Mount Zion Lighthouse.

The things people do in the name of Jesus Christ are so hateful. Be it denying gays the right to marry in the U.S.A. or killing witches in Africa, Christianity is all about power and control. Where is the love?

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Jack 119p · 810 weeks ago

That is one of the more serious problems with religion - teaching that the out-group is less deserving of life than the in-group.

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

This is it entirely vjack. It is that mentality which leads to the notion that people can murder other people because they are somewhat less human, It always amazes me when I see prolife activists and groups being done for murder or plotting attacks. It is so wrong, on so many levels.

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J.C. 17p · 810 weeks ago

Why kids?... witch kids? Acid?! They should give their pastors an acid bath, I wonder if they would shout love songs on their way to oblivion.... Is hard to believe that these things happen in the same world. It should be illegal for Christian or whatever to preach for poor people, their easy target.

What I'm wondering is how can you get acid...

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Baconsbud 96p · 810 weeks ago

I would say they pick kids because kids tend to ask more questions then adults. You also have to look back to when there were witch burnings and hangings in US and Europe. The people accused tended to be those that caused problems for those in higher places in life.

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J.C. 17p · 810 weeks ago

Yes, certainly. Perhaps times haven't changed much for some parts of the world.

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

I don;t think they have really changed that much in most parts of the world. It is not just isolated cases there are similar things going on everywhere. It is horrible.

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john_poson26 93p · 810 weeks ago

No, it’s all about the money, sad as this fact is; we all can thank Jesus for this too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRG9gXriVI

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

You couldn;t be more right john

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No2Religion 85p · 810 weeks ago

Parts of Africa are the most superstitious on Earth. Even if they are christian or muslim superstition will rule.

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

and religion and superstition sleep are in bed together, it is truly a case of the chicken and the egg. Or as the Arctic Monkees eloquently put it: Who came first the chicken or the dickhead

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Baconsbud 96p · 810 weeks ago

I wonder at times how close we are to this happening within some areas of the US. I know there are areas where everyone is of a select type of christian belief, which makes it much easier to get people to do what they normally wouldn't do.

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

I am sure it is a matter of time. And I suppose with all the cults and so on it gets closer everyday. But then if you look at it closely some of the things that are happening in some areas of the US really arent that far removed from this kind of abhorrence.

http://wsogmm42.blogspot.com

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1minion · 810 weeks ago

Yeah, but there they have poor information regarding health and wellness. Surely nobody in the States blames witches for alcoholism or depression...

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Baconsbud 96p · 810 weeks ago

Nah I don't think there are people blaming witches for it but have heard people blame demons and the devil for it. I have seen them sitting around sobering up from the night before and say how they had allowed the devil in them to have drank so much and then start drinking again that morning.

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J.C. 17p · 810 weeks ago

Indeed, the same old thing. "Someone made me do it".

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john_poson26 93p · 810 weeks ago

Lol. I take that you have never been to an AA meeting?

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stuffed 77p · 809 weeks ago

I was just about to echo the, demon made them do it sentiments when I noticed them. It was because he was an atheist the lord made him a drunkard etc. So again it is pretty close to it.

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geust · 810 weeks ago

Get a life, all of you.

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